How to Use tubercular in a Sentence
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In the middle of the night, another woman was brought in who had a hideous, gut-wrenching, tubercular cough.
—Lorrie Holmgren, Twin Cities, 18 May 2017
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In 1956, the site became the Oak Forest Hospital and the mission changed to caring for the chronically ill and the tubercular.
—Donna Vickroy, Daily Southtown, 5 May 2017
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Modigliani died of tubercular meningitis at 35 and a distraught Hébuterne, nine months pregnant with their second child, took her own life the following day.
—Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 19 Jan. 2018
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One of its sweetest, simplest moments finds the boys performing a play of their own for their ailing mother and being forced to cut the performance short because of her tubercular cough.
—John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press, 13 Feb. 2018
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At the Berghof, patients vainly hope that mountainous air and subfreezing balconies will cure tubercular lungs.
—Edward Rothstein, WSJ, 28 Apr. 2021
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The words séquelles pleurales—pleural effusions, or buildups of fluid around the lungs, which are sometimes a marker of tubercular infections—were just visible.
—Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
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The words séquelles pleurales—pleural effusions, or buildups of fluid around the lungs, which are sometimes a marker of tubercular infections—were just visible.
—Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
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Both Nixon and Trump had older brothers who died prematurely: Nixon’s from tubercular meningitis, Trump’s from alcoholism.
—Adam Sternbergh, The Cut, 11 July 2018
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For example, tubercular Black cooks and washerwomen might contaminate the food and clothing of their employers.
—Erin Thompson, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Oct. 2021
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Americans read about children being eaten alive by rats and concluded that the real horror sat inside their own stomachs, poisoning their bodies with tubercular meat and mystery pork innards.
—Sarah Jones, The New Republic, 26 Apr. 2018
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Before there were seagulls, sisters, orchards or late-night vodka confessionals, there was Anton Chekhov’s 1887 play about a superfluous man torn between his tubercular wife and his landowner’s daughter.
—Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 7 June 2018
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By then antibiotics had relieved the sanatoria of their tubercular residents, allowing them to become hotels.
—The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
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Living in a dirty squat in what seems a particularly tubercular part of town, the principal quartet of teenage London slumdwellers are eager to avoid the workhouse, pay their extortionist landlord her rent, and feed themselves with some regularity.
—John Anderson, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2021
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Lambeth also recruited volunteer doctors, including the surgeons who repaired a girl’s club foot and performed a series of operations to correct a tubercular spine.
—Paula Allen, San Antonio Express-News, 26 June 2021
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Every fictional child was hungry, an orphan, or tubercular.
—Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2021
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To a considerable extent, the preoccupation with tubercular thinness was bolstered by class anxiety.
—Rachel Vorona Cote, The New Republic, 7 Mar. 2018
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In the middle of the night, another woman was brought in who had a hideous, gut-wrenching, tubercular cough.
—Lorrie Holmgren, Twin Cities, 18 May 2017
-
In 1956, the site became the Oak Forest Hospital and the mission changed to caring for the chronically ill and the tubercular.
—Donna Vickroy, Daily Southtown, 5 May 2017
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Modigliani died of tubercular meningitis at 35 and a distraught Hébuterne, nine months pregnant with their second child, took her own life the following day.
—Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 19 Jan. 2018
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One of its sweetest, simplest moments finds the boys performing a play of their own for their ailing mother and being forced to cut the performance short because of her tubercular cough.
—John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press, 13 Feb. 2018
-
At the Berghof, patients vainly hope that mountainous air and subfreezing balconies will cure tubercular lungs.
—Edward Rothstein, WSJ, 28 Apr. 2021
-
The words séquelles pleurales—pleural effusions, or buildups of fluid around the lungs, which are sometimes a marker of tubercular infections—were just visible.
—Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
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The words séquelles pleurales—pleural effusions, or buildups of fluid around the lungs, which are sometimes a marker of tubercular infections—were just visible.
—Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
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Both Nixon and Trump had older brothers who died prematurely: Nixon’s from tubercular meningitis, Trump’s from alcoholism.
—Adam Sternbergh, The Cut, 11 July 2018
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For example, tubercular Black cooks and washerwomen might contaminate the food and clothing of their employers.
—Erin Thompson, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Oct. 2021
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Americans read about children being eaten alive by rats and concluded that the real horror sat inside their own stomachs, poisoning their bodies with tubercular meat and mystery pork innards.
—Sarah Jones, The New Republic, 26 Apr. 2018
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Before there were seagulls, sisters, orchards or late-night vodka confessionals, there was Anton Chekhov’s 1887 play about a superfluous man torn between his tubercular wife and his landowner’s daughter.
—Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 7 June 2018
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By then antibiotics had relieved the sanatoria of their tubercular residents, allowing them to become hotels.
—The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
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Living in a dirty squat in what seems a particularly tubercular part of town, the principal quartet of teenage London slumdwellers are eager to avoid the workhouse, pay their extortionist landlord her rent, and feed themselves with some regularity.
—John Anderson, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2021
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Lambeth also recruited volunteer doctors, including the surgeons who repaired a girl’s club foot and performed a series of operations to correct a tubercular spine.
—Paula Allen, San Antonio Express-News, 26 June 2021
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